... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LII GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LII Abbreviations to Centinel Index 218 American Association for the AdvanceAbolition 153 ment of Science 325 328 332 343 Abrading stones 17 18 American Association of Dental Schools Academy in Columbus 1817 p 72 364 Accessions Catalogue to Society's MSS American Association of Museums Coun211 cil of the 208 Acquisitions to Society's Library 210 American Dental Association 364 Adams C T 366 368 American Historical Association 86 209 Adams ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era SHGAPE announces the third SHGAPE Article Prize a biennial competition for the best published article dealing with any aspect of US history in the period 1865-1917 The article must have appeared in journals dated 1995 or 1996 Eligibility is open to any graduate student or individual with a doctorate awarded after 1987 who has not yet published a book An article may be nominated by the author or ...
... 218 Ohio Arch 218 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications beyond the common average and level of trivial earthliness No matter how inconsistent impossible and desperate a thing might appear to others if John Brown said he would do it he was sure to be believed His words were never taken for empty bravado wrote Frederick Douglass That enthusiasts like Gerrit Smith should be carried away was perhaps natural But Emerson was not an enthusiast Thoreau was not Theodore Parker was not All these men ...
... MUSKINGUM RIVER IMPROVEMENT MUSKINGUM RIVER IMPROVEMENT THE McCONNELSVILLE LOCK-OLD AND NEW IRVEN TRAVIS The beginning of the improvement of the Muskingum dates back to 1827 when on January 17th the following resolution was passed by the General Assembly Resolved That the Board of Canal Commissioners deem it expedient and authorize an examination and survey of the Muskingum River from Marietta to a point most convenient for a connection with the Ohio Canal to ascertain the practicability of ...
... AN ACT AN ACT For the r e li e f of the families of volunteers in the State or United States service SE CTION 1 Be it enacted by t h e General Assembly of the State of Tax levied Ohio That for the reli ef of the necessities of the families of volunthree-fifths of a teers who now are or hereafte r may be in the service of this st at e mill on the or the United S tates there be and hereby is levied and assessed for dollar valuathe ye a r 1862 three-fifths of one mill on the dollar v aluation on ...
... DANIEL DRAKE AS A PIONEER IN MODERN DANIEL DRAKE AS A PIONEER IN MODERN ECOLOGY by ADOLPH E WALLER Associate Professor and Curator of the Botanic Garden Ohio State University When in 1895 Warming of Copenhagen summarized his studies of the coastal dunes of the North Sea he wakened biologists to a new point of view He wrote the word oecology into the record It soon became widely used as a tool to aid in the understanding of the complex relations existing between organism and environment As a ...
... PICTURE OF A YOUNG COPPERHEAD by CARL M BECKER As he pursued his contentious course during the Civil War the great Copperhead Clement Laird Vallandigham drew around himself in Dayton Ohio a circle of political supporters and personal admirers Local politicians and newspaper editors followed in his wake and nameless men identified themselves as votaries of Val These supporters often embraced Copperheadism out of conviction but no doubt the strength and firmness of their faith were tinctured by ...
... LANGSTROTH THE BEE MAN OF OXFORD LANGSTROTH THE BEE MAN OF OXFORD by OPHIA D SMITH A revolution in beekeeping began on a summer day in 1838 when Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth saw a large glass globe filled with honey on the parlor table of a friend He was so fascinated by the beautiful sight that he went with his friend to visit his bees in an attic chamber In a moment all the intense curiosity of his childhood and boyhood seemed to burst into full flame When he went home that evening he took ...
... JOHN L JOHN L NETHERS Driest of Drys Simeon D Fess The struggle was long and hard fought but the final victory was short-lived for the national prohibition movement in the United States Temporary success came with the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919 but the drys had to admit defeat with adoption of the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933 One contemporary historian has noted that the most importunate of all the crusades of this generation was that against Demon Rum1 Many persons and ...
... ON THE HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY ON THE HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY BY RAYMOND D CAHALL For more than a score of years I have been giving a course at Kenyon College on the Intellectual History of Europe It has been a combination of James Harvey Robinson's course and of the reading of the greatest books dealt with in that course As I have brought it up to date added here or diminished there I have sought to avoid the panoramic and encyclopedic and have tried to lead my students to a ...
... W W SHERMAN JACKSON The Collapse of the Peculiar Institution Through Military and Legal Action Before May 1861 the right of slavery to exist as an institution in the states and territories was an axiom of American constitutional law This resulted in part from the highly controversial Dred Scott decision of 1857 Speaking for a divided court Chief Justice Roger B Taney ruled that Scott an African slave could not sue in a federal court to obtain his freedom on grounds that Blacks were not ...
... CHASE AND THE ELECTION OF 1860 CHASE AND THE ELECTION OF 1860 BY DONNAL V SMITH Continued from July QUARTERLY CHAPTER IV THE CHASE BOOM On New Year's Day 1864 the New York World lamented that the dawn of the last year of the most mournfully memorable presidential term in the annals of the Nation should still find the country rent asunder by civil convulsions It gave no hint of support for the President and his Cabinet they would have to be enlightened by the unmistakable voice of the people ...
... GOVERNOR JOHN GREINER AND CHASE'S BID FOR THE GOVERNOR JOHN GREINER AND CHASE'S BID FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN 1860 by EARL W WILEY Professor of Speech Ohio State University Old Abe--Hon Abraham Lincoln will address the people of Columbus either at the State House or City Hall today Friday Mr Lincoln has the reputation of being one of the ablest stumpers of the day--Columbus Gazette September 16 1859 This was all there was to the announcement made by the Columbus Gazette a conservative opposition ...
... COMMENCEMENT ON THE OHIO CANAL COMMENCEMENT ON THE OHIO CANAL AT THE LICKING SUMMIT This great work was commenced on Monday the 4th inst under circumstances the most favorable and auspicious On the day previous all the roads leading to the point selected for the celebration were crowded with people on foot on horseback and in every description of vehicle hastening to witness the scene Almost every house within a distance of five miles was occupied but on the evening of that day by far the ...
... NOEL FISHER NOEL FISHER Groping Toward Victory Ohio's Administration of the Civil War The American Civil War posed a vast challenge to the limited administrative capacities of the national and state governments both North and South As the chaos of 1861 painfully revealed recruiting large numbers of men supplying them with weapons uniforms and equipment and transporting them to the field were tasks initially beyond the ability of any American government to perform efficiently To sustain a long ...
... THE EXECUTION OF JOHN BROWN THE EXECUTION OF JOHN BROWN BY MURAT HALSTEAD The execution of John Brown was on the second of December 1859 the scene in a field a furlong south of Charlestown seven miles from Harper's Ferry The sensation caused by the John Brown raid was something wonderful The excitement of the whole country was out of all proportion to the material incidents The shock was because the feeling of the people that the slavery question had reached an acute stage and demanded ...
... THE STRATEGIC BACKGROUND OF THE THE STRATEGIC BACKGROUND OF THE NORTHERN SOLOMONS CAMPAIGN by JOHN MILLER Assistant Chief Pacific Unit Historical Division Department of the Army Behind nearly every military operation of the second World War lay months of careful planning In the South Pacific for example the preparations for the seizure of New Georgia a battle in which Ohio's 37th Division distinguished itself occupied the planning staffs of several army and navy headquarters for six months The ...
... ROBERT F ROBERT F HOROWITZ Land to the Freedmen A Vision of Reconstruction The Reconstruction Acts of March 1867 were much closer to the ideas of the moderate and conservative elements of the Republican party than to the views of the radicals Influential Republicans such as George Julian Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner had originally hoped for a more thorough reconstruction policy which they were never able to obtain In fact the phrase Radical Reconstruction is in part unjustified since ...
... 234 Ohio Arch 234 Ohio A rch and Hist Society Publications right we must be just as scrupulous in doing justice to the man of great wealth as in exacting justice from him Wrongdoing is confined to no class Good and evil are to be found among both rich and poor and in drawing the line among our fellows we must draw it on conduct and not on worldly possessions Woe to this country if we ever get to judging men by anything save their worth as men without regard to their fortune in life In other ...
... THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD ITS AUTHORSHIP BY C B GALBREATH In a contribution entitled The Battle of Lake Erie in Ballad and History the writer of this article in 1911 related the story of James Bird and reproduced the old ballad commemorating his heroic service on board the Lawrence and his tragic death a year later for desertion on the Niagara In commenting on this quaint pathetic ballad it was assumed to have been written by a bard unlearned and unknown but not ...